Disaster, Development and Urban Risk: a comment on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
March 25, 2015
By Pauline Eadie The World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) was held in Sendai, Japan from 14-18 March 2015. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) organized the conference. The objective of the conference was to facilitate a post-2015 framework for disaster relief. The result of the WCDRR was the non-binding Sendai …
Postgraduate MA Travel Bursaries
March 17, 2015
IAPS Tomlinson Scholarships for MA Students Number available: 2 Value of award: £800 The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies encourages and co-ordinates research activities relating to the Asia and Pacific region at the University of Nottingham. In line with its aim, IAPS is pleased to announce a competition for two postgraduate travel bursaries of …
A new political turn for Indian Kashmir
March 5, 2015
By Dr Andrew Whitehead The 79-year old Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was sworn-in on Sunday (1st March) as the new chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. Attending the ceremony in the state’s winter capital of Jammu was India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. For his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), it was …
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